Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such knowledge consciously to control the sex of offspring for practical breeding purposes as well as sentiment, has perhaps moved them most. But while few geneticists are willing to make any predictions about such possibilities, many foremost investigators are working to reveal the actual mechanics of the sex causation process. Not less than 500 theories-the majority fanciful old wives' tales based on no laboratory investigation of living material-have been recorded in literature. The most popular of these theories have had to do with: 1) the relative vigor of the parents, the more vigorous giving...
...most magnificent compliment ever paid to a Presidential candidate, " The one American poet who could sing outdoors." Here is The Chinese Nightingale (Mr. Lindsay's own favorite among his longer poems), and The Litany of the Heroes which he describes as a " rhymed Outline of History, still in process of development," and John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston, with its gorgeous analysis of "simple sheltered 1889" and its sledgehammer refrain concerning...
...politicians, however, will not admit that it is this colossal manufacture of new currency that is causing the mark to seek the levels of the worthless Russian rouble. Instead, new and futile laws are being enacted against speculation in foreign exchange, and new and equally futile attempts are in process to somehow "stabilize" the mark exchange rate. At the present stage, it seems that either the German policy concerning the Ruhr must be abandoned, or else a political and social revolution in Germany must occur. The Ruhr occupation is proving expensive to France, but she can easily hang on there...
...Algonquin ? ? Mr. . Conrad's modesty ? Housman's Last Poems?an antique bitterness?laconic magnificence?the Clean Books' Bill and Justice Ford's unmarried daughter?wonder what Justice Ford's unmarried daughter thinks about it all??Gertrude Atherton?Black Oxen?hoping against hope that the Steinach process of rejuvenation will not be applied to various literary prominencies?books about sex?a few books not about sex?Sabatini and the gorgeous return of cloak-and-sword...
...light reflected from the pictures being cut into innumerable flashes by a " radio eye," a revolving disc composed of many mirrors. The flashes are transmitted into a photo-electric cell, which transforms them into electric waves to be relayed by wire or radio. The receiving apparatus just reverses the process. Mr. Jenkins is now working to secure longer distance in transmission...